I was thinking of building one,.. have the plans for an electric one with a 114 or so inches! and running 6 geared speed 400's I'd like to shrink it down to about 80" and use GWS IPS geared motors with 3-blades. but right now, I'm tapped for funds & can't even afford the reduction of the plans... It also has some foam parts I'll have to design out,.. not much of a foam-guy. Perhaps these 3-views will "inspire" Me! Bob

Just watched "SAC" two nights ago and forgot to record it. Hmmm...might have to swing by Suncoast Pictures for a copy.

I have the plans. They are a design by John Considine. It is a BIG plane and the plans are worth the price. I think I paid about 45.00 for them if memory serves me correctly. Money well spent.

He has the build up article of the model in one of the Austrailian Model Airplane News mags which you can get a back issue of. Unfortunately all the pictures are in B&W. The plans are also available from Traplet Publications U.K. and John also told me that the nacelles, canopy, and other related vacu-formed pieces are available if you don't want to make your own from scratch though I've yet to get a response back from Traplet regarding these pieces.

BTW, John's plane is covered with brown paper and a mix of 50/50 water and white (Elmers) glue. It was painted using standard acrylic paints. He also mentioned that it flies very well sort of like a big trainer and now it needs a bit of touching up from all the flights for the brown paper is starting to look a bit ragged now.
Perry

About 84" would be about perfect for geared IPS & GWS 3-blade props (might have to cut a 1/2" or so off..) Build it light with stringer & former (don't like foam much) and skin the fuselage with 1/16" & sand it to about 1/32" Cover it in silver litespan for that "big metal cigar" look.. Nice & light built-up wing with some carbon fiber re-enforcement 7 extremly judicial use of some 1/32" ply here & there... Bob

I keep thinking "it has to have the jets, too" and wondering what size I'd wind up with if I scaled the jet nacelles for the GWS EDF-50. Probably BIG! I wonder if those little KP44 fans are still available anywhere......

No, I don't expect them to add measurably to the performance, but it would add even more to the cool factor!

Yesterday I got a call to come over and inspect/preflight a electric B-36 project in a nearby 'burb. The rumor was that is was an R/C E-conversion of the very large Eureka balsa 114" control line kit from the 1950s...and so it was.

Model is looking great and is impressive! Needs a very few minor tweaks which the owner (Jerry Bailey) is now working on.

It felt surprising light (no scale available). I estimate the RTF weight at abot 20-22 lbs. ..the builder did some weight reduction and hand picked replacement balsa sheeting. He also made lighter fiberglass clones of the original aluminum motor fairings.

Power system is 6x BP 450 class outrunners, 40 amp ESCs and six separate 3 cell 2200 lipos. 8x6 three blade pushers and the model appears to have tons of power. No watt meter handy, but will do that test soon. I am guessing that it is making 300-350 wats per motor, so the power ought to be in the general vicinity of 100 watts/lb.

I will be doing a maiden soon and will give a flight report in the next couple of weeks.

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I think the short fuse effect in the side view photo is more a perspective thing in the camera than it really being too short.
The three view in the first post is likely more accurate than the painted art three view you posted...the one linked in the first post came directly from the Canvair factory prints.